Recently, the Madhya Pradesh High Court resolved an issue regarding the power of the High Court to entertain a commercial dispute arising from a design infringement suit instead of the Commercial Court set up by the State government at the district level. The Court interpreted the language of the Designs Act, 2000, and the Commercial Court Act, 2015.
In this write up, Manisha Singh and Simran Bhullar discuss the order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court regarding the power of a High Court to entertain a commercial dispute arising from a design infringement suit instead of a district Commercial Court. Article was 1st published in the Global IP Matrix Magazine.